Molluscs & Snails
Molluscs are a group of invertebrates that includes squid, octopuses, cuttlefish, nudibranchs, snails, slugs, limpets, sea hares, mussels, clams, oysters, and scallops.
Molluscs have soft bodies that are usually covered by a protective shell made of calcium exceptions being Octopus, Squid and sea slugs.
Gastropods are the largest group in the mollusc family and are diverse in terms of their size, shape, color, body structure and shell morphology. They are diverse in terms of their feeding habits —there are browsers, grazers, filter feeders, predators, bottom feeders, scavengers and detritivores among the gastropods.
Zeacumantus subcarinatus Diet: Coraline and filementous algae
Cookia sulcata Diet: Foliaceous algae and Ecklonia radiata
Turbo smaragdus Diet: Foliaceous algae and machrophytes
Diloma melagraphia atheops Diet: Grazes on algal film and sediment deposits detritus feeder
Haminoea zelandiae colour variable Diet: Ulva, Sea lettuce,diatomaceous film and filamentous green algae
Bulla quoyii Diet: Ulva, Sea lettuce,diatomaceous film and filementous algae
Zeacumantus subcarinatus Diet: Coraline and filementous algae
Monoplex australasiae The monoplex whelk is easily recognised as it has a hairy external skin and the shell opening is beautifully marked with orange and brown stripes. Commonly found in shallow coastal waters along rocky shorelines in depths of 1 to 15 m. Diet: Feeds on starfish.